AGATHANGELUS.-Head of Sextus Pompeius. Sard. Stosch. Spelt AгAOANTEAOY, but the gem is suspected. AGATHEMERUS.-Head of Socrates. Sard. Blacas Coll. AGATHON. Bacchus. Beryl. Algernon Percy. AGATHOPUS.-Head of Sextus Pompeius. Beryl. Florence. Elephant's Head. Stosch. Two hands joined. Stosch. Sard. ALBIUS.-Head of Caligula. Sard. Barbarini. ALEXA. Bull. Sard. Berlin. ALEXA, QUINTUS.-Cameo fragment. Legs of a warrior. Florence. N.B. All these are supposed to be works of Alessandro Cesati il Greco. ALEXANDER.-Cameo. Cupid taming a lion. On one side Venus, on the other a Bacchante. Morpeth. Cameo. Head of Drusus. Also assigned to Alessandro Cesati. ALLION (AAAION and AAAYON).-Head of Apollo laureated. Sard. Florence. Cameo. Head of Apollo. Raspe. Bacchante seated on the lap of a faun sacrificing to Priapus, a satyr plays the flute: Calcedony. Besborough. Unknown Roman bust. Raspe. Muse. Sard. Strozzi. Some assert this name to be the signature of Gio. Mar. da Pescia. Bull butting. Onyx. Thoms. Head of Ulysses, front-face. Sard. Hamilton. Venus Marina holding a sea-horse. Nessus and Deianira. Lippert. Sard. Feriniani. ALPHEUS and ARETHON.-Cameo. Head of the young Caligula. Azaincourt. Cameo. Germanicus and Agrippina. This used to be shown at the Abbey St. Germain des Prés as the betrothal ring of the Virgin Mary: it was stolen with the other treasures in 1795 when the abbey was burnt down, and subsequently sold to the Russian General Hydrow. ALPHEUS alone.-Ajax seated on a rock. Dying Warrior. Cameo. Derring. Sard. Barbarian king in a biga. Cameo. Albani. Venus and Cupid drawing a butterfly out of a well. Cameo. AMMONIUS.-Head of Laughing Faun. Jacinth. British Museum. A symbolic group. Sard. Lessing. (Merely the owner's ANTIOCHUS.-Head of Pallas helmeted. Sard. Andreini. Bonus Eventus. Red Jasper. M'Gowan. APELLES.-Mask. Sard. Jablonowski. APOLLODOTUS.-Bust of Pallas armed. Sard. Barbarini. The Dying Orthryades, near him two warriors. Sard. APOLLONIDES.-Cameo fragment of a cow lying down. Sold by Ox grazing. Amethyst. Raspe. Cow lying down, as in the cameo. Mask. Garnet. Berlin. Sard. Hague. APOLLONIUS.-Diana leaning against a pillar; a rock in the background. Amethyst. Naples. Head of Mæcenas. Jacinth. Rhodes. AQUILAS. Venus bathing, Cupid by her. Raspe. A horse. Stosch. The name spelt AKYIAOV. ARCHION.―APXIONOC on the robe of Venus Marina carried by a Triton. Sard. Hague. ASPASIUS.-Head of Indian Bacchus. Red Jasper. Worsley. (A) copy is in the British Museum.) Head of Junius Brutus. Raspe. Head of Agrippina the Elder as Ceres, crowned with wheat ears. Beryl. Marlborough. Perhaps a work of Natter or Flavio Sirletti. Head of Jupiter-fragment. Red Jasper. Florence. Juno standing, at her feet a peacock. Head of the City of Antioch, Worsley. Red Head of Pallas, in a highly ornamented helmet. ASPUS.-Centaur carrying off a Bacchante. Amethyst. Thoms. ATHENION. Jupiter in his car throwing his bolts at two giants with serpent legs. Cameo. Naples. Antique copy of this. Webb. Female head. Amethyst. Lippert. AULUS.-Cupid nailing a butterfly to the trunk of a tree. Sard. Cupid in fetters leaning on a hoe. Cameo. Barenth. Sard. Florence. Fore part of a horse. Garnet. Caylus. Diana or Amazon. Sard. Buoncompagni. Esculapius-bust: the name in a tablet. Sard. Strozzi. (His finest work, of which innumerable copies, some antique, are extant. Youthful head. Cameo. Collegio Romano. Lion devouring a horse. Green Jasper. Meghan. Mercury holding a ram's head. Sard. Raspe. Head of Sextus Pompeius. Head of Ptolemy Philopator or of Abdolonymus-in front a bull's head; behind, an old man with a staff. Sard. Bibliothèque, Paris. Quadriga. Sard. Carlisle. Venus seated on a rock balancing a stick, at which a little Cupid catches. Agate. Vettori, afterwards Jenkins the banker. (This name has beyond all others been made use of by modern artists. Natter confesses that he put it upon a copy of the Venus Vettori, of which he made a Danae.) The following gems are also attributed to Aulus :- Head of Laocoon. Bibliothèque Royale. Lion seizing a stag. Red Jasper. Lord Meghan. Head of Mæcenas. Sard. Lord Greville. Mercury carrying the infant Bacchus. Jacinth. Hague. Pan and Olympus. Sard of three layers. Beck. The Sacrifice to Venus: three females, a man, and a satyr, per haps of the 16th century. AXEOCHUS.-Faun playing the lyre, Cupid with a thyrsus, be tween them an altar on which is a crescent. Head of youthful Hercules. Sard. Cheroffini. Stosch. Perseus carrying the Medusa's head, has on his buckler this name AEEOX Stosch. Bacchante. Paste. De Thoms. Hercules, Mercury, Vulcan. Sard. Count Wackerbarth. BEISITALAS.-Cupid leaning on a spear, his legs crossed. Agate. Florence. BOETHUS. Philoctetes reclining and driving off the flies from his wounded foot with a wing. Cameo. Milliotti. CAESILAX.-Minerva seated. Sardonyx. Constable. CAIUS or GAIUS.-Head of a dog, perhaps of Sirius, full face; very deeply cut in a Siriam Garnet. Marlborough. Raspe calls this a work of Natter's. Silenus seated playing on the double flute. Jacinth. Baron Bust of a girl, her finger on her lips. Sard. Same collection. CALLIMORPHUS.-Thalia standing: a mask in one hand, a thyrsus in the other. Sard. Florence. CARPUS.-Bacchus and Ariadne on a lioness bound with wreaths. Drunken faun dancing. Antique paste. Count de Thoms. haps of the 16th century. Florence, per Perseus holding the Medusa's head and the harpè. Raspe. CHAEREMON.-Conqueror in the games. Burnt Sard. Lower Empire. Raspe. CLASSICUS.-Serapis seated. Sard. Crozat. Of the CLEON. Apollo Citharedus, behind him a tripod and altar, in front a helmet. Gori, once belonged to Andreini. CNEIUS or GNAEUS.-Head of Antinous. Raspe. Victorious Athlete rubbing himself with oil, by his side a table, with a vase and palm branch. Beryl. Lord Dun cannon. Same subject. Nicolo. Bibliothèque Royale. Young Athlete holding a strigil. Sard. Rendorp. Head of Brutus. Sard. Cavaliere d'Azara. Diomed naked, armed with sword and shield, the Pal- Head of a goddess, sometimes called Sappho and Cleopatra. Head of the young Hercules. Beryl. Strozzi. Head of Melpomene and a tragic mask. Turbie. Head of Mercury. Abbé Pullini. Torino. Head of Theseus, covered with a bull's hide. The name said to be added by Pichler. Rendorp, Amsterdam. COENUS and QUINTUS; reading KOINOY and KOINTOY. Adonis nude, holding a javelin and leaning on a cippus ; Faun celebrating the bacchanalia: vase in one hand, thyrsus CRATERUS. Diana of Ephesus. Sard. Stosch. CRESCENS (KPHCKHC).-Harp-player. Sard. Poniatowsky. CRONIUS. Terpsichore-doubtful. Andreini. Figure standing, holding a lyre, leaning against a square cippus on which is a statue of Hercules; but the work appears too late for the age of Cronius. Perseus. Sard. Devonshire. |